Spanisch | Englisch |
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pulga noun {f} | flea [fleas](parasitic insect) tiddlywinks(competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container) |
pulga de agua noun {f} | water flea(crustacean of the order Cladocera) |
pulga del mar noun {f} | sand crab [sand crabs](crab of the Hippoidea superfamily) |
pulga saltarina noun {f} | tiddlywinks(competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container) |
pulgada noun {f} | inch [inches](unit of length) |
pulgar noun {m} | thumb [thumbs](digit) |
Pulgarcita proper noun {f} | Thumbelina(a thumb-sized girl, the main character of a fairy tale) |
Pulgarcito proper noun {m} | Tom Thumb(the thumb-sized hero of a fairy tale) |
cada quien tiene su manera de matar pulgas phrase | there's more than one way to skin a cat(a problem generally has more than one solution; there is more than one way to achieve a goal) |
cazampulga noun {f} | black widow [black widows](species of venomous spider) |
espulgar verb | delouse [deloused, delousing, delouses](to remove lice from) |
hacer de una pulga un elefante verb | make a mountain out of a molehill(to treat a problem as greater than it is) |
juego de la pulga noun {m} | tiddlywinks(competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container) |
todo son pulgas phrase | it never rains but it pours(unfortunate events occur in quantity) |
uña del pulgar noun {m} | thumbnail [thumbnails](fingernail on the thumb) |